On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Somehow, emulating the above doesn't attract me nearly as much as it
> evidently does you.  What happens in cases where the parser is unable
> to infer a data type, or infers the wrong one?

An exception should be thrown.

> Or even if it does
> infer a type, how do you find out what it inferred?

Since I'm fetching the data from PL/Perl, I don't really care.

> I'm not excited
> about building a capability that fails to address any except the simplest
> use case.

It will save me a ton of duplicate code.

Best,

David


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